Wrong! Everything had been wrong from the very beginning.
In that instant, all his previous unease became reality. It was as though a flash of inspiration had torn through the fog, allowing Lu Yang to connect every clue at once:
"Ancestral Dragon was not released just now!"
"As early as the First History, from the moment the Cang River Dragon Lord reincarnated as [True Lord Biluofuguang] and slew the Huai River Dragon Lord, Ancestral Dragon had already escaped!"
"From then on, [True Lord Biluofuguang] was Ancestral Dragon!"
"In the second history, that Sacred Sect Great True Lord in the Real World who inexplicably had his soul scatter, and that Sacred Sect Great True Lord in the Netherworld who fled after watching the show, were both him!"
"It had always been Ancestral Dragon. It had never changed!"
In other words, only a few years after Si Sui died and the Dao Lord ascended to [Other Shore], Ancestral Dragon's Primordial Spirit consciousness had secretly been released by Chu Sheng!
Back then, before the Three Lives Stone.
On the surface, Ancestral Dragon had escaped through [True Lord Biluofuguang], but that had merely been a performance for others. In truth, he had escaped long ago!
The [True Lord Biluofuguang] standing before the Three Lives Stone had been Ancestral Dragon from the start!
And the one who had truly been awakened at the time was the Cang River Dragon Lord!
After that, the Cang River Dragon Lord had taken on Ancestral Dragon's Karma and become his substitute, while Ancestral Dragon had shed his shell like a cicada, quietly casting off his identity as a dead spirit.
That was why Chu Sheng had said back then:
[Daoist friend, go early and return early].
At the time, all the Dao Lords had thought those words meant that